Hundreds of thousands of elderly Brits unable to afford basic essentials as cost of living bites

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/thousands-elderly-brits-afford-basic-essentials-5HjdCwJ_2/

by tylerthe-theatre

10 comments

  2. I’m not listening to any bleating about ‘cost of living’ or inflation from anyone who wanted endless lockdown, furlough schemes and all rest of the idiotic shite that was done and vast billions of pounds printed up for.

  3. Elderly always desperate to make themselves out as the victims. The boomer generation is the wealthiest all of generations in the UK. About 1/3 are millionaires and median has about £600k in assets. Even at the bottom, the rates of poverty amongst the elderly is about half of that of children.

    If the Elderly is truly upset about poverty – they should pay NI on pension payments and end the tax free lump sum. Then use the money to help those at the bottom.

  4. Well maybe they should have been better with their money and cut down on those netflix subscriptions and avocado toast

  5. Total Pensioner Benefit Govt Spending**:** Forecast to be approximately £166 billion in 2024/25.

  6. This problem will only get worse as cost of living means working age people won’t be able to save for retirement so will be more dependent on the state pension, and a falling birth rate means an ever increasing number of pensions relying on an ever decreasing number of workers paying tax

    We must grow the economy and we must either massively increase birth rates or increase skilled migration to avoid this doom spiral

  7. > It means almost half of the 533 pensioners polled have been forced to cut back on hobbies and entertainment, while nearly a quarter say they can rarely ever afford the non-essentials that ‘make life enjoyable’.

    So.. the same as every other age demographic then? Not sure why LBC felt the need to focus on one particular age group for this study.

  8. What the actual f*ck is with the comments.

    Look up how many old people are dying each year from the cold.

    The answer isn’t to blame them just cuz the majority of their age group vote stupid.

    It’s to wake people up, show them how this system is rotten and show them a better way is possible.

    Organise, fight back!

    Join the IWA https://www.iwa-ait.org/content/addresses

    Labour, reform, conservative and greens have all shown they cannot fix this system, best they can do is give us a few benefits that will be taken away a few years from now.

    The Zapatistas, CNT in Catalonia and Rojava have shown us a better way is possible!

  9. ‘It means almost half of the 533 pensioners polled have been forced to cut back on hobbies and entertainment’

    Same, lads. Same.

  10. But weren’t we told in summer all pensioners are rich on super pension schemes

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